MicroStrategy Training: Report Services Dynamic Dashboards

This two-day MicroStrategy course explores the features and functionality of MicroStrategy Web, focusing particularly on the creation of Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards using MicroStrategy Report Services.

Students learn how to design and use dynamic enterprise dashboard features, such as panel stacks, selectors, and dashboard templates. Participants also learn graph formatting features, as well as the best uses for certain graph types.

The course covers Flash-specific features, such as widgets, transitions, and Flash-specific formatting options, as well as implementation of OLAP services features within your document. Additionally, students learn how to add datasets, various objects such as grids, graphs, text boxes, images and more to your document. Finally, the course illustrates useful document design and formatting techniques.

Throughout the course, students get hands-on practice via a series of exercises.

Topics:

Module 1: Introduction to Report Services

Beyond the basic grids and graphs

Overview of MicroStrategy Web Interface

What is a dashboard

Module 2: Interacting with Dynamic Dashboards

Document display modes and export formats

Document subscriptions

Module 3: Creating Dynamic Dashboards

Dashboard templates

Dynamic dashboard layering

Document objects

Arranging and formatting objects

Module 4: Graphs in documents

Design recommendations for graphs

Best uses for graph types

Graph formatting

Module 5: Flash selectors and formatting

Flash-only selector widgets

Widgets as selectors

Widgets in interactive mode

Flash-specific formatting

Module 6: Flash mode and widgets

DHTML vs. flash

Advanced visualizations

Gauge

Time series slider

Interactive stacked graph

Heat map

Interactive bubble graph

Microchart

Widget rendering in PDF and Excel

Widgets in Interactive mode

Module 7: Documents and MicroStrategy OLAP Services

Derived metrics

Summary metrics

View filters

Derived elements

Module 8: Linking from documents

Module 9: Creating other types of documents

Reporting capabilities

Introduction to the document editor

Creating documents

Creating multiple layout documents

Useful design techniques and document specific objects

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